U.S. must increase incentives for biofuels infrastructure.

clipped from www.renewableenergyworld.com The U.S. must increase incentives for a wide variety of biofuels infrastructure investments if the nation is to meet the federal renewable fuels standard (RFS), according to a new report released by a task force of leading energy infrastructure experts. In the new study, the Biofuels Infrastructure Task Force, convened by the National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP), examined the infrastructure implications of the federal Renewable Fuels Standard, which commits the U.S. to 36 billion gallons of biofuels production by 2022 from a current level of about 9 billion. The bipartisan group composed of experts from relevant industries found that the relatively swift shift in the composition of the nation's transportation fuel supply has profound implications. "The renewable fuels standard is ambitious," said Norm Szydlowski, chairman of the Biofuels Infrastructure Task Force. "To meet its timetable, approaches to biofuels infrastructure upgrades must also be ambitious.